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"Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you where you are, as the person that you are, and the whole process seems so precarious that you look back at those climatic moments when things might have gone differently, when life might have spun off in some other direction, and wonder at this apparently arbitrary outcome"
In this fascinating new piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks "what if" she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad?
In this highly original work, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path....
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Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about �love�... than Penelope Lively. (Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post") Eminently wise and amusing. ("The Boston Globe") "Making It Up" display�s� Livelys incisive prose style, her wit, and, above all, her agile imagination. ("Entertainment Weekly") Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively. (Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post") Eminently wise and amusing. ("The Boston Globe") "Making It Up" display[s] Livelys incisive prose style, her wit, and, above all, her agile imagination. ("Entertainment Weekly")
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`A highly original form of fictional autobiography as well as a fascinating insight into the seemingly random nature of destiny' Daily Mail
`Clever and laugh-out-loud funny ... this book is everybody's daydreams made real and is a complete joy' Daily Express
`Exceptionally acute, well done' Scotsman
`Realistic, thoughtful, understated. These elegant "confabulations" allow Lively's talents full range ... they evoke the times she has seen and the richness of other lives as well as her own' Sunday Telegraph
`Engaging, taut and finely measured' Sunday Times
`Entertaining, absorbing reading' Literary Review
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0753174960
- ISBN 13 9780753174968
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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